International Business Machines Corporation
Redundancy in converged networks

Abstract:

A second node may receive a first duplicate package through a converged network via a first node. The first node my include a first link redundancy entity and the second node may include a second link redundancy entity. The first link redundancy entity and the second link redundancy entity may be a part of a physical layer. The second node may receive a second duplicate package. The second link redundancy entity may determine that the first duplicate package was received before the second duplicate package. The second node may delete the second duplicate package. The second node may send the first duplicate package to an application.